Abstract:Streptomyces coelicoloris a non-pathogenic soil saprophytic bacterium and is a model organism for antibiotic production. This species contains a single copy of a nine gene cluster known as the mammalian cell entry (mce) operon. This operon was originally characterised in Mycobacterium tuberculosisas an important virulence factor acting in invasion and survival within macrophages and encodes an ABC transporter for cholesterol import. As the function of the mceoperon in S. coelicoloris currently unknown, this st… Show more
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